1908 RPPC Postcard Monroe New York NY McMonagle & Rogers Prescription Pharmacy for Sale

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1908 RPPC Postcard Monroe New York NY McMonagle & Rogers Prescription Pharmacy For Sale

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1908 RPPC Postcard Monroe New York NY McMonagle & Rogers Prescription Pharmacy:
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1908 RPPC Postcard Monroe New York NY McMonagle & Rogers Prescription PharmacyThis postcard depicts Monroe, NY, labeled The Heart of Town. It features different advertisement and store names and signs, some only visible through magnification, such as:

McMonagle & Rogers Stationary & Kodaks - Supplies

Village Drug Store

McMonagle & Rogers Prescription Pharmacy

Rogers Pharmacy

Monroe is a town in Orange County, New York, United States.
In the early 1700s the lower Hudson Valley region was being mapped out to be divided up under the crown. On March 25, 1707, the "Chessecocks Patent was granted by Queen Anne". The patent confirmed deeds that had been previously acquired by purchase directly from the Leni-Lenape nation. The patent was given to seven people, six men and one woman. Cheesecocks as a precinct included all of present-day Monroe, Woodbury, Tuxedo, and Stony Point. Many of the patentees never saw the land they bought or were given. Many of the new settlers to come with the Cheesecocks patent were Dutch and English. Both groups of settlers came from Long Island for the rich natural resources.
The original name for the area on the Ramapo River, surveyed by General Washington's geographer and surveyor Robert Erskine, was Smith's Mill, described by Erskine as being "on a sudden bend of the Ramapo." This site still contains the ruins of the grist mill built in 1741 by David Smith, the first settler (Map of Orange and Rockland Counties Area laid down by R. Erskine 1778–1779). The Clove Road, which led from Haverstraw, home of Sir William Smith, up through Tuxedo and the rocky defile known by the Dutch word "kloof," for Clove, was vital to the American cause during the Revolutionary War. It was unknown to the British patrolling the Hudson and gave Washington his escape route from New York to his New Windsor headquarters. The area was called Southfields prior to April 6, 1808, when it took its present name of Monroe.
David Smith, a prosperous miller of Smithtown, Long Island, bought land from one of the original patentees, Philip Livingston. Smith "purchased lot 43, consisting of 276 acres. He built the first home." Smith built a dam and a grist mill on the Ramapo River, which created the Mill Pond of today, as well as homes for himself and his four sons.
In 1889, a further division of the town resulted in a loss of territory to the towns of Woodbury and Tuxedo. In 1894, the community of Monroe set itself apart from the town by incorporating as a village.

Please inspect the pictures, as they give the best representation of condition. There are some smudges, scrapbook residue on the back, and a crease running from top to bottom just off of center.

(A140 inventory number)